Budding-tool



No. 6l3,03l. Patented Oct. 25, i898. I B. F. GILBERT 8v. GQG. JAMES.

BUDDING TOOL.

( Application filed Sept. 23, 1897.)

(No Model.)

ATTORNEY.

W/ TNE SSE S a JMT UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. GILBERT AND GEORGE G. JAMES, OF EXETER, MISSOURI.

BUDDlNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,031, dated October25, 1898.

Application filed $eptember 23, 1897. Serial No. 652,787. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN F. GILBERT and GEORGE G. JAMES, citizensof the United States, residing at Exeter, in the county of Barry andState of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBudding-Tools for Fruit and other Trees; and we do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The special object of the invention is to make a fruit-budder by whichthe bud may be taken out and inserted in the stock without bruising itor injuring its vitality.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective View of the budder; Fig. 2, anassemblage of detail views, hereinafter described; Fig. 3, a detail viewshowing how the bud is inserted under the bark of the stock; Fig. 4., aview showing the bud after insertion; Fig. 5, a detail view of theinserter and the releaser; Fig. 6, a longitudinal and diametricalsection of Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 a detail view of preferred form forcutting around the bud.

In the drawings, A represents the handle, with the ferrule a and thecross-slots a (1 while B is a rod bent at b 11, secured at one end in acentral hole of the handle, and carrying a tube 0 at the other end. Inthe end of tube 0 is arranged an inserter F, made, preferably, of aquill cut diagonally at one end to form a point to go under the bark ofstock, and a releaser E, which is a short rod with a notch at the frontend turned toward the point of inserter F, the said rod playing back andforth in the tubes 0 F.

d is a thumb-piece on rod E, arranged to project through a longitudinalslot of tube 0, so as to control the releaser.

G is a knife secured to the handle by the cut ring 1- and the screw S,and it is provided with the cutting edge g and the two crosscutters g g.The proper cut in the stock is made by the cutters g g while the bud isexcised by the cutting edge g, so as to leave about half an inch of thebark H below it. The bud is then placed within the inserter F. The pointof the inserter is then placed at the crosscut and the bark is lifted,after which the bud may be pushed down to the position intended to beoccupied by it by moving the releaser. The inserter is now withdrawn andthe operation is completed.

What we claim as new is 1. A budder consisting of a handle A, a rod Bbent at b b, a slotted tube 0, a tube F diagonally out at the front end,and a notched rod E having a thumb-piece d, all combined, constructedand relatively arranged to operate in the manner and for the purposespecified.

2. A budder having a knife with the cutting edges g g 9 arranged asshown and described for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we aifix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses. I

BENJAMIN F. GILBERT.

GEORGE G. JAMES.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. JAMES, WILLIAM N. BATES.

